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  1. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Aaargh. The parakeets are back in force in our garden, after a 3-4 month break. Our neighbours must particularly enjoy the first hour after dawn on Sunday mornings, when a score or more descend to wolf down sunflower seeds, peanuts and fatballs, screeching pretty much incessantly. We have good...
  2. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Saw a single Swift yesterday evening over Jackson's Lane, but wonder if it was passing through, since the 2 local pairs appear to have left - we have not seen them since the last weekend of July. Hope they bred successfully after two failed consecutive years. A Tawny Owl has begun calling each...
  3. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Hi Paul Interesting that you note this - it's something we've remarked on in the last couple of weeks. Having only rarely seen them over Highgate in the last 7 years, I've seen singles several times (maybe the same bird) over the last couple of months, both morning and evening, travelling...
  4. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Hi Paul I agree with you about the parakeets. I think there was a study from Belgium which suggested that they may outcompete nuthatches for nesting sites. We get regular visits from nuthatches - mainly in the winter and early spring, although family groups visit some years in late May/June -...
  5. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Hi During the winter we regularly had over 25 parakeets in our Jackson's Lane garden, peaking at 32 one morning. Numbers are down now during breeding season, typically a dozen. Some neighbours have asked us if they are ours (!), presumably thinking that we let them out of an aviary in the...
  6. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    That's excellent re the House Sparrows (what a sad sign of the times that that does not sound as ridiculous as it would have done 25 years ago) - the closest I have seen them to the village is way down North Hill, by Gaskell and Yeatman roads, where there is a decent sized colony. Matt
  7. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Two swifts heading south this morning over Jackson's Lane - my latest record of them here. Matt Evans
  8. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    A Hobby over our Jackson's Lane garden on Saturday was a welcome garden tick. Matt
  9. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Lesser Redpoll A lesser redpoll spent several hours yesterday dodging the parakeets to feed on nyger in our Jackson's Lane garden. We had over 20 of them daily this winter and spring, but I have never seen them at this time of the year. It had no red on its breast, so I guess it was either a...
  10. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Common buzzard thermalling over Highgate (Jackson's Lane) at 5.15pm today. Spent just over 2 hours on Parliament Hill from 6.30am seeing if there was migration going on. Didn't see the Redstart that has been reported there and very little viz mig - 5 meadow pipits was a disappointing return! A...
  11. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    There have apparently been 10 "distraction thefts" from the Lloyds and Barclays cash machines on the High Street since November, so I reckon these ladies have their eye on you for that reason. What with a firecrest, bittern and flyover Golden Plover, Highgate will be twitch central this weekend...
  12. M

    Highgate-Waterlow Park

    Hello Paul I live in Highgate (between the village and the Tube) and have appreciated your postings from Waterlow Park. Ring Ouzel is really an excellent sighting for the Park at any time of the year and clearly is a great find for early January. If you ever have a camera on you when you're...
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